{"id":1738,"date":"2011-06-10T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2011-06-10T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T15:02:09","slug":"m-l-longworth-death-at-the-chateau-bremont-a-verlaque-and-bonnet-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/m-l-longworth-death-at-the-chateau-bremont-a-verlaque-and-bonnet-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"M. L. Longworth, Death at the Chateau Bremont: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0143119524\/alcoholreviewsco\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1722\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/death-at-the-chateau-bremont\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Death-at-the-Chateau-Bremont.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"309,475\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Death at the Chateau Bremont\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Death-at-the-Chateau-Bremont-195x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Death-at-the-Chateau-Bremont.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1722\" title=\"Death at the Chateau Bremont\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Death-at-the-Chateau-Bremont-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Death-at-the-Chateau-Bremont-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Death-at-the-Chateau-Bremont.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>There are times when a person just needs a mental escape from the daily rhythm&#8212;this summer read gave me just that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a lot of fun.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0143119524\/alcoholreviewsco\">Death at Chateau Bremont<\/a> (New York: Penguin, 2011) offers charming  French locales, vivid characters, and an intriguing who-done-it.<\/p>\n<p>The main characters, Antoine Verlaque and Marine Bonnet, are both  believable and beguiling. While reading it, don&#8217;t be surprised if you  feel the urge to get off the couch and pour a glass of wine. It&#8217;s all  part of the book&#8217;s relax-and-take-leave effect.<\/p>\n<p>In a few spots I caught Longworth making clumsy authorial maneuvers.   (This is her first novel.)  But on the whole, she did a fine job.\u00a0 I look forward to Longworth&#8217;s next book in this series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when a person just needs a mental escape from the daily rhythm&#8212;this summer read gave me just that.&nbsp; It was a lot of fun. Death at Chateau Bremont (New York: Penguin, 2011) offers charming French locales, vivid characters, and an intriguing who-done-it. The main characters, Antoine Verlaque and Marine Bonnet, are both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-s2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}